The music was first performed in the city's Mystery Plays - medieval religious dramas based on Bible stories. The story ...

A Coventry woman who was just six at the time of the Blitz has recounted her harrowing story of the night - revealing her family would have been killed if they hadn't gone out to get fish and chips.

A series of events will be held in Coventry over the next fortnight to remember those whose lives were lost in conflicts across the decades. The city will Coventry is paying tribute to the fallen, ...

A new walking trail has been launched to help people learn about the Coventry Blitz 85 years ago. Visitors can join an organised walk through the city, stopping at some of the areas worst affected by ...

A historic Coventry venue is inviting afternoon tea lovers to mark a major anniversary in style by hosting a nostalgic 1940s experience filled with music, cake and wartime charm. St Mary’s Guildhall ...

A 97-year-old man has told how his family's air-raid shelter caved in on the night of the Coventry Blitz, leaving them buried before his father dug them out. "The air was foul with cordite, ...

My mother wrote this account of her experience in the Coventry Blitz and going to the 50th Anniversary when my son was asking about World War 2 as part of his Sixth Form school work. She is not happy ...

(Continued from “Coventry Blitz 1”). The “all clear” sounded about 3 o’clock in the morning and we trooped out of the shelter, wondering what horrors we might find outside. I felt very tired and ...

Images showing motor industry workers, with some of the vehicles they helped build, have been produced in a project to mark major World War Two anniversaries.

Coventry is a city ever evolving. Going back almost a thousand years it's been at the forefront of important industries - quaint historical artisan professions like watchmaking and ribbon weaving and ...

The German bombing of Coventry during the night of 14 November and morning of 15 November 1940 was so devastating, the Nazis coined a word for it. That term of propaganda was “coventrieren”, meaning ...

An annual festival returns next month, marking 85 years since the Coventry Blitz. Running from 1-16 November, Coventry City Council said this year's Peace Festival would reflect "Coventry's proud role ...